Colorado State University Pueblo

Colorado State University Pueblo Vice President for Athletics and Strategic Partnerships Dr. Paul Plinske has announced that Ben Greenberg, a 20-plus year veteran in the intercollegiate athletic communications business, has been named the ThunderWolves' new Director of Sports Communications. Greenberg began his duties at CSU Pueblo in late December 2023. 
 
"After a lengthy search and a long wait, we are ecstatic to announce Ben Greenberg as our next Director of Sports Communications," said Dr. Plinske. "Ben comes at the perfect time and will instantly provide a boost to our department. His experiences are endless, his expertise is strong and his energy is unmatched. We welcome Ben with open arms and look forward to a long and prosperous tenure here at CSU Pueblo." 
 
Greenberg comes to Colorado State University Pueblo after serving as the Sports Information Director the past 18 months at McKendree University, a 36-sport NCAA Division II school in Lebanon, Ill., and is one of 13 members of the Great Lakes Valley Conference. 
 
"I'm extremely excited to join the CSU Pueblo ThunderWolves athletics family. I want to thank Dr. (Paul) Plinske, Mannie (Reinsch) and the rest of the search committee for putting their faith in me to step in and lead the sports information office at CSU Pueblo," Greenberg said. "I couldn't be more excited about this opportunity at Pueblo and the chance to move to another part of the country I have never been to. I can't wait to get started."
 
In his position at McKendree, Greenberg managed all facets of athletic communications for the Bearcats. He also managed a staff of a full-time assistant SID, three graduate assistants and several student workers. He helped publicize an NCAA National Champion women's bowling team in 2021-22, a National Player of the Year candidate in softball and a Harlon Hill Trophy candidate in football. He was also the primary contact for McKendree's football, volleyball, men's and women's basketball, softball, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's water polo, women's lacrosse, men's and women's tennis and men's and women's golf. 
 
"Colorado State Pueblo has an outstanding tradition of athletic success and I'm excited to have the chance to tell the stories of success that ThunderWolves' student-athletes achieve in competition, in the classroom and community," Greenberg said. "I am thrilled to work in a league as strong and competitive as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference."
 
Prior to coming to McKendree, Greenberg spent three-and-a-half years at Webster University, a 14-sport NCAA Division III school in Webster Groves, Mo., and was a charter member of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. 
 
In his time at Webster, Greenberg saw the Gorlok athletic team achieve numerous successes at both the conference and national level and those successes culminated in 2021 with men's golfer Will Hocker becoming the first Gorlok student-athletes to win an individual NCAA Division III national championship as he captured medalist honors at the 2021 NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships. Along with individual national title in men's golf, Greenberg covered an NCAA Division III national runner-up in men's track and field in 2019 and covered Webster's 2019 baseball team that advanced to the NCAA Division III World Series. In his three-plus years at the school, Webster won 15 regular season SLIAC titles, 18 SLIAC Tournament championships and earn 12 appearances in the NCAA Division III Championships. 
 
Prior to working at McKendree and Webster in the St. Louis, Mo., area, Greenberg had spent 14 years working in the intercollegiate athletic communication business, including spending 11 of those 14 years working at the NCAA Division II level. He served four years (2012-16) as the Assistant Athletic Director for Athletics Communications at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla., that was a member of the Sunshine State Conference and spent seven years (2005-12) as the Sports Information Director at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Ark., that competed for six of those years in the Gulf South Conference and is currently a member of the Great American Conference. 

Before working at the NCAA Division II level, Greenberg began his sports information career at the NCAA Division I level as he was a media relations assistant during the 2002-03 school year at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, and then spent two years (2003-05) as the Sports Information Director at Chicago State University.

Greenberg is an active member of College Sports Communicators (formally CoSIDA) and has served on numerous committees within the Association, including currently serving on both the Job Seekers and Publications Contest Committees. He was a South Region representative to the Division II CoSIDA Board of Directors from 2014-16, a South Region coordinator for both the Daktronics Men's Basketball and Women's Volleyball programs and a member of the D2SIDA men's and women's basketball ranking committees and was a member of the NCAA women's lacrosse regional ranking committee in 2022. He was recently appointed to serve on the NCAA Division II National Women's Golf Committee, where he serves as the chair of the West Region RAC. His position on the Women's Golf Committee runs until 2026. 

Greenberg, who is an Omaha, Neb. native, is a 1995 journalism and mass communication graduate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He and his wife, Tanya, were married in 2008.